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Work That:: Article 3 of ILO Convention No. 182

While not all work done by children should be considered child labor, there are some forms that are particularly harmful and should be eliminated. The worst forms involve children being enslaved, separated from their families, and exposed to serious hazards without protection. These include slavery, debt bondage, forced recruitment as soldiers, prostitution, pornography, illicit activities like drug trafficking, and other work that is likely to harm their health, safety or development.

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Work That:: Article 3 of ILO Convention No. 182

While not all work done by children should be considered child labor, there are some forms that are particularly harmful and should be eliminated. The worst forms involve children being enslaved, separated from their families, and exposed to serious hazards without protection. These include slavery, debt bondage, forced recruitment as soldiers, prostitution, pornography, illicit activities like drug trafficking, and other work that is likely to harm their health, safety or development.

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Not all work done by children should be classified as child labour that is to be targeted for elimination.

Children’s or adolescents’ participation in work that does not affect their health and personal
development or interfere with their schooling, is generally regarded as being something positive. This
includes activities such as helping their parents around the home, assisting in a family business or
earning pocket money outside school hours and during school holidays. These kinds of activities
contribute to children’s development and to the welfare of their families; they provide them with skills
and experience, and help to prepare them to be productive members of society during their adult life.
The term “child labour” is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their
potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development. It refers to
work that:

 is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children;


and/or
 interferes with their schooling by: depriving them of the opportunity to attend
school; obliging them to leave school prematurely; or requiring them to attempt to
combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.

The worst forms of child labour involves children being enslaved, separated from their
families, exposed to serious hazards and illnesses and/or left to fend for themselves on the streets
of large cities – often at a very early age. Whether or not particular forms of “work” can be
called “child labour” depends on the child’s age, the type and hours of work performed, the
conditions under which it is performed and the objectives pursued by individual countries. The
answer varies from country to country, as well as among sectors within countries.

The worst forms of child labour

1. Whilst child labour takes many different forms, a priority is to eliminate without delay
the worst forms of child labour as defined by Article 3 of ILO Convention No. 182 :
o all forms of slavery or practices similar to slavery, such as the sale and
trafficking of children, debt bondage and serfdom and forced or compulsory
labour, including forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed
conflict;
o the use, procuring or offering of a child for prostitution, for the production of
pornography or for pornographic performances;
o the use, procuring or offering of a child for illicit activities, in particular for the
production and trafficking of drugs as defined in the relevant international
treaties;
o work which, by its nature or the circumstances in which it is carried out, is likely
to harm the health, safety or morals of children.

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